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Background
Harry Garcia is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Protection Professional and Licensed Private Investigator (CA 24409) who served over 28 years of distinguished service with the Internal Revenue Service as an Internal Revenue Agent/Auditor and with the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a Special Agent Accountant and Supervisory Special Agent. Upon his retirement from the FBI, he held a senior level position with Ernst & Young LLP, as an Associate Director of the Office of Firm Security for 16 months. Harry Garcia is the founder of H. Garcia & Associates, Inc., a consulting company focusing on litigation consulting, security consulting and international investigations & asset searches.
Experience
Mr. Garcia has more than twenty-eight years of professional experience encompassing auditing; forensic accounting; fraud investigations, both domestic and international in scope, and security and litigation consulting work for corporate and attorney clients. His expertise includes investigations of economic crimes; public corruption; financial institution fraud; money laundering, including criminal forfeiture of illicit assets, and expert testimony in support of criminal prosecutions. He also held an executive level diplomatic position with the FBI in Latin America, wherein he managed sensitive extraterritorial investigations, and managed a multi-agency task force and a computer forensic response team. During his tenure at Ernst & Young, Mr. Garcia provided assistance to internal clients and real estate brokers on buildings lease agreement specifications concerning physical security safeguards. Mr. Garcia utilized a risk analysis software to assist in conducting vulnerability gap analysis on "current state" vs."recommended state."
As a consultant, for corporate and attorney clients, Mr. Garcia has provided evidentiary support for pretrial motions, analyzed documentary evidence to assist counsel in depositions, managed a sensitive corporate undercover investigative project and conducted a comprehensive security assessment, for a large U.S. Corporation's manufacturing facilities in Mexico.
Mr. Garcia was honored by the Federal Bar Association, Puerto Rico Chapter in May 1987, with the Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Award, for his work in a complex fraud investigation involving an international stock brokerage company.
Professional Affiliations
- Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
- American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) International
- Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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